Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Duste Hill, Kendrick Smith and Rhiannon Naomi Daly for 'Galactic': A game of rebellion, relationships and war among the stars! Designed by Riley Rethal, 'Galactic' is a game of belonging outside belonging about rebellion and relationships in space. In 'Galactic', all players share responsibility for setting the tone and mood of the game, making trouble and finding solutions, sharing the spotlight and being interested in the world, an...
Jun 29, 2025•2 hr 18 min
Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Duste Hill, Kendrick Smith and Rhiannon Naomi Daly for 'Galactic': A game of rebellion, relationships and war among the stars! Designed by Riley Rethal, 'Galactic' is a game of belonging outside belonging about rebellion and relationships in space. In 'Galactic', all players share responsibility for setting the tone and mood of the game, making trouble and finding solutions, sharing the spotlight and being interested in the world, and for va...
Jun 22, 2025•2 hr 19 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes To tied us over to the next session of Savage Worlds, the players catch up and debrief after their last two sessions and discuss THAT moment! Realms of Peril & Glory is an Actual Play podcast of big laughs and big heart! They jump from one setting to another and devour as many game systems as they can get their han...
Jun 15, 2025•37 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Liv, Liz, Jess, Pip and special guest game master Zack from Realms of Peril and Glory, for 'Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition'. Designed by Shane Lacy Hensley, with Clint Black and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Savage Worlds is a Fast, Furious and Fun rules system which gives p...
Jun 08, 2025•4 hr 31 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Anica Cihla stand up comedian, brand director at hero Forge and game designer of Sin Eater: A journaling game about the absolute power to absolve or condemn. Sin Eater is a haunting solo tabletop roleplaying game that plunges the player into the wretched world of sin-eating: a real, historical practice wherein an individual was hired to subsume the sins of the dead into their own soul th...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Liv, Liz, Jess, Pip and special guest game master Zack from Realms of Peril and Glory, for 'Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition'. Designed by Shane Lacy Hensley, with Clint Black and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Savage Worlds is a Fast, Furious and Fun rules system which gives p...
May 25, 2025•2 hr 30 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes To tied us over to the next session of Savage Worlds, the players catch up and debrief after their last two sessions and discuss THAT moment! Realms of Peril & Glory is an Actual Play podcast of big laughs and big heart! They jump from one setting to another and devour as many game systems as they can get their han...
May 18, 2025•44 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Liv, Liz, Jess, Pip and special guest game master Zack from Realms of Peril and Glory, for 'Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition'. Designed by Shane Lacy Hensley, with Clint Black and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Savage Worlds is a Fast, Furious and Fun rules system which gives p...
May 11, 2025•2 hr 5 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to podcaster, game designer, and cultural consultant Daniel Kwan about his upcoming game: Wandering Blades. Wandering Blades is a roleplaying game of violent, martial arts melodrama for 2-5 players. In this game, players take on the roles of highly skilled martial artists who wander the lands seeking to redress wrongs, help the downtrodden, and free the innocent from oppressive forces. Usin...
May 04, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Liv, Liz, Jess, Pip and special guest game master Zack from Realms of Peril and Glory, for 'Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition'. Designed by Shane Lacy Hensley, with Clint Black and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Savage Worlds is a Fast, Furious and Fun rules system which gives p...
Apr 27, 2025•2 hr 38 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes To tied us over to the next session of Savage Worlds, the players catch up and debrief after their first session and give some recommendations for zombie films! Realms of Peril & Glory is an Actual Play podcast of big laughs and big heart! They jump from one setting to another and devour as many game systems as the...
Apr 20, 2025•20 min
Content Warnings: Severe Graphic Bodily Harm to PC, Sudden death and betrayal of PCs, Harm to animals and young adults, Gun and weapon violence, Explosions and Zombies. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Liv, Liz, Jess, Pip and special guest game master Zack from Realms of Peril and Glory, for 'Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition'. Designed by Shane Lacy Hensley, with Clint Black and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Savage Worlds is a Fast, Furious and Fun rules system which gives p...
Apr 13, 2025•1 hr 58 min
Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Shaghik, Benjamin, Jon and special guest facilitator Viditya Voleti for 'A Land Once Magic': Pocket-sized Worldbuilding TTRPG! Part of Backerkit’s Pocketopia 2025, 'A Land Once Magic' is a conversational post-fantasy worldbuilding TTRPG, perfect for creative writing, tabletop campaigns and freeform storytelling. With a deck of cards and a group of friends, you will have everything you need to build a world unlike any you have seen before! Support the Back...
Mar 30, 2025•3 hr 4 min
Content Warnings: Warfare and political disruption, indoctrination, assassination, timetravel disruption, allegories of climate change and animal cruelty, mentions of alcohol and guns Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Dillin from One Shot Podcast for 'The Words We Leave Behind', a duet epistolary RPG about the butterfly effect, war, love and hate inspired by the novella, 'This Is How You Lose the Time War'. Written and Designed by Craig Duffy of LunarShadow Design, each player takes on th...
Mar 16, 2025•2 hr 35 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Kat 'the Lore Mistress' and Josh Arklin, part of the Hatched Games team. Hatched Games is an up and coming UK TTRPG publisher, with a focus on horror zines showcasing a new TTRPG system (SRD) in each one of their seasons. Their first project, GAST, is a solo folk horror zine collection crowdfunding on BackerKit from March 13th 2025. This season will use The Carta system by Peach Garden G...
Mar 02, 2025•52 min
Content Warnings: Violence, Fighting, Grief, Loss, Heroic Sacrifice Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Lou Fryer and Maddy Searle for a special livestream of 'Prequel: A Tactical Storytelling Game of Heroic Sacrifice'. Designed by Ethan Yen and James Quigley, Prequel is a tactical storytelling game of heroic sacrifice for 3-5 players. You are the first group of Heroes that have reached the Evil that rules over the realm. The quest was difficult and full of sacrifice. Despite all this, vict...
Feb 16, 2025•3 hr 12 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Ethan Yen & James Quigley, lead designers behind 'Prequel: A Tactical Storytelling Game of Heroic Sacrifice'! In 'Prequel: A Tactical Storytelling Game of Heroic Sacrifice', players play doomed heroes fighting against their final adversary. Over the course of the game, they play out a tactical combat while building the Heroes’ quest using the world, events, and bonds that led the her...
Feb 02, 2025•59 min
Content Warnings: Crude humour in the comedic stylings of Monty Python! Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Nathan Blades, Naomi Clarke, and special guest Head of Light Entertainment (HoLE) Brian Saliba from Crowbar Creative for 'Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme': The extremely officially licensed Monty Python tabletop role-playing game. 'Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme' is a rigorous course of study intended only for serious students o...
Jan 26, 2025•2 hr 21 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Luke Green aka Thrythlind, one of the co authors of the Slayer’s Survival Kit and Hunter’s Journal, two new supplements to equip hunters with everything they need for Monster of the Week. The Slayer’s Survival Kit and Hunter’s Journal offers up new playbooks, new story options, additional assets & threats, and more. If you missed the funding campaign, there is a free 84 page preview ...
Jan 19, 2025•51 min
Content Warnings: Cannibalism, Body Horror, Death, Decay and Gore, Abandonment and Difficult child/parent relationships. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Ryan, Saul, Audrey, Liz and special guest facilitator Graham Gent for 'Under the Autumn Strangely': A storytelling game of pastoral horror priming with anachronistic Americana set in a land that Never Was. Inspired by "Over the Garden Wall" created by Patrick McHale, 'Under the Autumn Strangely', let’s players collaboratively create a w...
Jan 05, 2025•2 hr 37 min
Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tay and Dan (from the Backwater Bastards) and Brianna and Emily (from the Gamewoven podcast) for a very special livestream of 'You Awaken In A Strange Place’, a fully improvised roleplaying game for 4 players, designed by Jacob Andrews. This oneshot’s audio was taken from a livestream as part of the OneShot Podcast Network Patreon Drive. If you enjoyed this show, check out the patreon for more BTS content and support the network! 'You Awaken In A Strange ...
Dec 25, 2024•2 hr 22 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Jeff Stormer, award winning podcaster, games designer and the host of Party of One podcast (amongst many others)! Many folks will know of Jeff’s amazing podcast Party of One - an actual-play podcast focused on two-player roleplaying experiences. Every week, he sits down with friends for a two-player game to have some laughs, maybe a few tears, and a really good time. Timestamps Intro: 00...
Dec 22, 2024•58 min
Solemn Vale: Of Oak & Holly is now out on wherever you listen to podcasts! Check out Realms of Peril and Glory for the full series! Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to Solemn Vale, You’ll Never Leave… When four school friends reunite for Christmas many years later in their hometown, all of their old grudges bubble to the surface. Little do they know that the walls are closing in around them as Solemn Vale works to keep them forever. Solemn Vale is a is a narrative driven storytelling ...
Dec 21, 2024•2 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Brian Nisbet about his work as the organiser of Dragonmeet's charity auction and how such charity events enhance a convention's reputation as a whole! Recorded live at Dragonmeet 2024. Timestamps Intro: 00:00:10 Q&A start: 00:01:11 Outro: 00:28:11 Find out more about Irish Games Association and Gaelcon here. Support Dublin 2029's bid for the 87th Worldcon! Credits The 'What Am I Roll...
Dec 08, 2024•34 min
This is a special feed drop of a brand new actual play podcast - Realms' Blood on the Clocktower! Do you love The Traitors, Werewolf and Mafia? Welcome to the next level of social deduction, Blood on the Clocktower. Each episode is stacked to the brim with subterfuge and betrayal! With guests from No Rolls Barred, The Pandemonium Institute, Dropout, Oxventure and beyond, you won't be able to stop listening. Subscribe for a new episode in our ten-episode first season on the last Tuesday of every ...
Dec 01, 2024•41 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Grant Howitt and Matt Sanders from Rowan, Rook and Decard, the UK TTRPG company behind Spire, Heart and many more, about their experiences running specialised RPG megagames at conventions! Timestamps Intro: 00:00:10 Q&A start: 00:01:44 Outro: 00:42:32 Q&A Guest’s work & recommendations Rowan, Rook and Decard website Rowan, Rook and Decard on Bluesky Grant Howitt's Patreon Cre...
Nov 24, 2024•49 min
Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Emma Larkins, the creator of Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, Squabblin Goblins, and the upcoming storytelling game: Epilogue: Finish your Story! In Epilogue, players will cooperatively improvise a story about how they all died based on connected word fragments between cards. Players are encouraged to support each other through the story and find a way to connect their storyli...
Nov 10, 2024•52 min
Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Violence towards animals, Offscreen death, Slasher and supernatural killers. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Chloe, Katie, Ellie and Am from the Deck of Many Aces podcast for SHIVER, the award winning tabletop roleplaying game bringing tales of the mysterious, the peculiar and the strange to life. Published by Parable Games, SHIVER has easy to learn rules which make it fast to play and keep players immersed in chaotic and dark magic filled stories. SHI...
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 137
Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Violence towards animals, Offscreen death, Slasher and supernatural killers. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Chloe, Katie, Ellie and Am from the Deck of Many Aces podcast for SHIVER, the award winning tabletop roleplaying game bringing tales of the mysterious, the peculiar and the strange to life. Published by Parable Games, SHIVER has easy to learn rules which make it fast to play and keep players immersed in chaotic and dark magic filled stories. SHI...
Oct 13, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 136
Content Warnings: Guns, Violence, Death, The capture and taming of wild animals, and Bad Accents (mostly from Fiona) Show notes A WAIR x Effekt Podcast Livestream Collaboration to celebrate the end of the Tales of The Old West Kickstarter! The Sherwoods is a family of homesteaders, taking a day off from the farm to catch a wild horse as a birthday treat for the youngest member of the family, on their 16th birthday. However, the nice day out doesn't go as smoothly as they'd hoped. Tales of the Ol...
Oct 02, 2024•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 135
